WabiDaily
Questions
How the daily photo, the timer and the board fit together.
Basics
What is this?
One reference photo a day. You draw it against a short timer, take a photo of your drawing, and post it to the board.
Everyone gets the same photo that day, so the board ends up being one pose drawn a lot of different ways.
Do I need an account?
No. You can draw, keep a streak and look at the board without one.
An account is only for posting in public. Without one your drawing is saved on your device and shows on the board as Private, where only you can see it.
Can I put it on my phone?
Yes. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, no browser bar.
Once you have opened the day, the timer and the photo work offline. Posting needs a connection.
Drawing
Why is the photo blurred before I start?
So you cannot plan the drawing. If you get to study the pose first, the timer is pointless.
The photo is not in the page at all until you press start, so there is nothing to peek at in devtools either.
How long do I get?
30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes. You pick before you start.
There is a three beat count in, then the photo goes full screen and the screen stays awake until the time is up.
Can I stop early?
Yes. It saves the time you actually took, not the one you picked.
What happens when the time runs out?
The photo blurs and the only thing left is to take a picture of your drawing. Nothing is uploaded unless you post it.
When does the photo change?
Midnight UTC. Everyone drawing on the same day gets the same photo.
How does the streak work?
It counts days in a row that you drew, in UTC days. Drawings made without an account count too.
Missing a day only breaks it once that day is over, so drawing late at night is fine.
The photos
Where do the photos come from?
Wikimedia Commons. Clothed figure and gesture photography: dance, martial arts, sport, costume, portraits, people reading and walking.
Only public domain and Creative Commons files, and the credit each one asks for is shown under the photo.
Will I get the same photo twice?
Not for about 20 months. There are 588 photos and every one of them comes up before any of them repeat.
Days next to each other are kept unalike as well, so you do not get three standing poses in a row.
Who picked them?
I did, by hand. About 40 percent of what the collector found got cut: crowds with no clear figure, photos of documents and costume displays, landscapes with a tiny person in them, and anything I would not want on a public board.
Posting
The camera did not open on my phone.
Use the choose a photo button under it. Some browsers ignore the camera shortcut, and that button also covers scans and photos you already took.
Can I remove a drawing I posted?
Yes, from that day's page, any time. It deletes the post and the image.
How do hearts work?
Tap the heart on a drawing, or double tap the drawing itself. Tap again to take it back.
Hearts need an account, since otherwise there is no way to tell one person from another.
Sharing saved a file instead of opening the share sheet.
That is the fallback for when the browser cannot hand files to other apps. It also happens on plain http, which is what you get testing on a phone against your laptop.
The saved image is the same card, so you can post it yourself.
Your account
I drew before signing in. Do those get posted?
Not without asking. After you sign in the Today screen offers to add them to the board, with keep them private next to it. Nothing moves until you pick one.
Can I change my name?
Yes, on the sign in page. Two to 24 characters, lowercase letters, numbers and underscores.
Your first one comes from your email address, and it is the only name anyone else sees.
What do you do with my email?
Sign you in, and make that first name. It is never shown on the board and never shown to anyone else using the app.
There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking scripts. The privacy policy has the rest.
Something else? Write to me, or read the privacy policy.